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by bvrstvr 5y ago
You're misconstruing the parent's point. The radiologist can be paid the same, even more. Their point is that while the cost (at least in time) of the radiologist's work was cut to 1/10, individual patients' bills r
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by bvrstvr 6y ago
Let's assume we live in a country like South Korea, so such a database must surely already exist (since companies are able to verify a user's SSN). Can we make a verification system that doesn't require the user to provide th
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by bvrstvr 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I guess the assumption here is that such a database does exist. SSN is the first thing that came to mind because I remember when I lived in South Korea as a child, EVERYTHING you registered for online requi
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Ask HN: Can zero-knowledge proofs be used to verify a user's identity?
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by bvrstvr 6y ago
> Of course, but that shouldn't be an argument to completely dismiss attempts to be less biased. I agree, and I explicitly took this position in my initial reply. > You achieve lesser bias by constantly doubting and questioning y
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by bvrstvr 6y ago
Zinn's point was that no matter how truthful or factually correct something is, it would still be biased. Consider an event that created some gain for a country at the expense of a specific group of people. A history book that claims &
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by bvrstvr 6y ago
Your comment explains why one might dislike people who take Zinn's writings as the absolute truth but doesn't explain the hate for Zinn himself.
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by bvrstvr 6y ago
Can you cite examples of Zinn causing the world damage?
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by bvrstvr 6y ago
I'm a data scientist without a formal background in programming. Can someone please explain why implementing math functions in C/D is different than doing it in R? For example, I would assume that creating a mean function using nu